I want to hear what Jay, Scott the Shot or the missing Roberta have to say...

JB Cases

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I think you meant Schadenfreude Lou. I don't think that there is such a word as Freundenschade in German.
 

HawaiianEye

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I don't know who your buddy is (or why you're acting as his sock puppet here) but my first hand experience is that no one in USAF public affairs would say something like that. And that is based on 20 years experience, from base level to the Pentagon, state-side and overseas.

Lou Figueroa

Nobody in the USAF PAO office would say that because they even BS each other.

PAOs are paid "spinners". They are nothing more than "Sham WOW Specialists!". They will say WHATEVER the BOSS says or what "sells"...it isn't necessarily the TRUTH in ALL matters.
 

sjm

Older and Wiser
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oh yeah. So you bail and what happens the next time you try and sell? You're damage goods and ineffectual. Credibility is a lot like virginity -- once you lose it...

Lou Figueroa

What are you trying to get at here, Lou? I'm not recommending any course of action nor am I condoning what I believe to be Barry's likely course of action.
I'm simply stating that to assume that anyone will come on this forum and try to explain anything is unreasonable. Maybe yes and maybe no.

Barry cannot lose any credibility since he has none. What he can lose, however, is his sanctioning and in that eventuality we might not see a field of this quality for quite a while.
 

Nostroke

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Well, no, Stu, that's the thing. If you're going to come here and cheerlead for an event, or product, or whatever, then you can't bail when things go south. If you tell everyone how great things are going to be, then you should also be able to explain why they weren't.

Lou Figueroa

I guess i didnt read all of them but i saw her cya in most of them . Essentially we were told what "Barry says"
 

BigNBeefY

Just Stopping By
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I think you meant Schadenfreude Lou. I don't think that there is such a word as Freundenschade in German.

schadenfreude and freudenschade are colloquial antonyms...schadenfreude is taking pleasure in anothers downfall and freundenschade is feeling sorrow over anothers success.

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nobcitypool

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What would you have her explain? The dog can only eat the homework so many times. There's nothing she, or anyone else could say that would be plausible or make any difference. She probably needs the job so the best alternative she had is silence.
 

bdorman

Dead money
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BB is a con man. To perpetrate a successful con, the con man needs people who are desperate to believe.

Since the pool world has so few options, nearly everyone in it is desperate to believe.
 

lost

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What is the con?

Yes what is the con? "Added" money not added? What a surprise. Or something else? I really find it hard to believe people refer this tournament as a "U.S. Open" when nobody can even scare up a 1/2 dozen decent minor sponsors to guarantee the prize fund. Did more than 10 "pros" break even after reasonable expenses?
 

(((Satori)))

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Yes what is the con? "Added" money not added? What a surprise. Or something else? I really find it hard to believe people refer this tournament as a "U.S. Open" when nobody can even scare up a 1/2 dozen decent minor sponsors to guarantee the prize fund. Did more than 10 "pros" break even after reasonable expenses?

Its not even added money not added is it? I think it's more like added money not added on time due to inaccurate projections.

Ultimately it is his faulty projections that give this tournament more prize money than what it otherwise would have isn't it? Are the players dumb for playing in this tournament? I don't think so. The way I see it this is very similar to playing a guy who you know is firing an air barrel but you also know it is good action and the money is likely going to be paid, just paid late.

While his way of run ing the event certainly isn't what I see to be professional, I wouldn't exactly call it a con.
 
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cuesblues

cue accumulator
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Someone should plant drugs on him an call the cops!

That plan will never work.
Not because it's entrapment, but because Barry would have to use the payout money
to pay his legal bills, which would delay the player payouts until the 2020 US Open.
It's like a Catch22 with other people's money.
 

lfigueroa

AzB Silver Member
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Nobody in the USAF PAO office would say that because they even BS each other.

PAOs are paid "spinners". They are nothing more than "Sham WOW Specialists!". They will say WHATEVER the BOSS says or what "sells"...it isn't necessarily the TRUTH in ALL matters.


You are stupid. If you only knew what went into an AF press briefing you'd be ashamed of yourself, if your capable of that.

"Bagdad Bob" my ass. Shame on you.

Lou Figueroa
 

lfigueroa

AzB Silver Member
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What are you trying to get at here, Lou? I'm not recommending any course of action nor am I condoning what I believe to be Barry's likely course of action.
I'm simply stating that to assume that anyone will come on this forum and try to explain anything is unreasonable. Maybe yes and maybe no.

Barry cannot lose any credibility since he has none. What he can lose, however, is his sanctioning and in that eventuality we might not see a field of this quality for quite a while.



It's not about Barry, Stu, it's about Roberta who signed on to be his mouth piece.

Lou Figueroa
 

lfigueroa

AzB Silver Member
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I guess i didnt read all of them but i saw her cya in most of them . Essentially we were told what "Barry says"


If you are going to "carry the water" you must hang around and answer when everyone gets sick from drinking the water :)

Lou Figueroa
 

lfigueroa

AzB Silver Member
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What would you have her explain? The dog can only eat the homework so many times. There's nothing she, or anyone else could say that would be plausible or make any difference. She probably needs the job so the best alternative she had is silence.


You can't have it both ways and just cheerlead.

When things go into the shooter you should also be around "to pick up the pieces, when somebody breaks your heart."

Lou Figueroa
with apologies to
Johnny Mercer
 
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